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A 35-year-old man went overboard on a Carnival Cruise ship off the coast of Florida on Monday, US Coast Guard officials said.
The Coast Guard said in a tweet that crews were searching for the 35-year-old man who went overboard on the Carnival Magic about 186 miles east of Jacksonville, Florida.
As of Tuesday afternoon, Coast Guard crews had searched 4,044 square miles over the course of 19 hours, adding that it will continue the search with aerial assets.
A Carnival Cruise Lines spokesperson told Fox News Digital that security video shows the man leaning over the railing of his balcony at 4:10 a.m. Monday and falling into the water. His companion reported him missing late Monday afternoon, the spokesman said.
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Ronnie Lee Peale Jr. (GoFundMe)
“The U.S. Coast Guard has released the vessel from all search and rescue efforts and advised the vessel’s captain to proceed to Norfolk, where it arrived on Tuesday,” the spokesperson added.
According to a GoFundMe by Jennilyn Blosser, 35-year-old man Ronnie Lee Peale Jr., her partner, said it was his “first cruise.”
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This photo shows the cruiser Carnival Magic, in Dubrovnik on May 20, 2020. (AFP via Getty Images)
“We went on a cruise to celebrate my birthday and unfortunately he went overboard and has still not recovered. Please keep our family in your prayers and thank you for your support. This was Ronnie’s first cruise and luckily he had a great time and earned he has a lot of friends. He is our social butterfly who was always on the move and loved to make friends with everyone,” Blosser wrote.
Blosser told WTKR that Peale Jr. her long-term fiancé.
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Cruise ship Carnival Magic departs Port Canaveral, Florida/ (Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
“He was the life of the party. It just hurts too much to even type let alone talk about it,” Blosser said. “He loved the cruise life because he could drink, gamble and socialize which put him in his happy place. This was his first cruise and I’m sure he would have been willing to do one monthly.”
Adam Sabes is a writer for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to [email protected] and on Twitter @asabes10.
